Tim Frazier stepping into starter's role while Jrue Holiday is out: Tim Frazier has been around the NBA long enough to know opportunities don’t come with choices. When one comes along, regardless of the circumstances, it needs to be embraced. And the conditions couldn’t be much stranger for Frazier. The Pelicans’ point guard is penciled in as the team’s starter entering the 2016-17 season, thrust into the role by the absence of former All-Star Jrue Holiday, who is out indefinitely while tending to his pregnant wife, Lauren Holiday, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. -- The New Orleans Advocate

Five questions (and answers) as Pelicans start training camp: 1) Is this is Demps’ last stand? Dell Demps enters his seventh season as general manager in New Orleans, and the natural question bubbling up is whetherthis year’s team will determine his future with the franchise. The team has made just two playoff appearances in the previous six seasons and New Orleans’ 203-273 regular-season record under Demps’ watch is uninspiring. -- The New Orleans Advocate

New Orleans Pelicans will have 77 games televised on Fox Sports New Orleans: Seventy-seven of the New Orleans Pelicans' 82 regular-season games will be televised this season on Fox Sports New Orleans, the franchise announced on Thursday. The Pelicans' broadcast begins on Oct. 26 with their opener against the Denver Nuggets at the Smoothie King Center. -- The Times-Picayune